Samsung somehow thinks it's okay to charge $499 while delivering no tangible upgrades.

It is a half baked review, IMO. The author says that despite having 45 W charging, the phone takes 75 mins to charge. Samsung really slows down it’s charging speeds post 80%, so testing from 0 to 100 is not a good criterion at all.

Plus, he forgets to mention that Samsung skips on a microSD card for A56 which was present on A55. Though in Samsung’s favor, they are offering 6 OS upgrades and I doubt any other OEM except Google matches it.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My SO has had several and really liked them until they broke or got lost (the phones’ quality really aren’t to blame here). I’ve offered the Sony Xperia 10 VI to my dad last Christmas and it doesn’t come with much bloat at all, I would call it good.

    Sony Xperia phones are great, until you unlock the bootloader and it wipes the camera software, leaving you with a camera that takes worse pics than a literal potato.

    But if you want a completely bloat-free phone, you can’t beat Google Pixel flashed with GrapheneOS.

    This is my plan for my P9PXL. I’m weaning myself off of Google’s services, but I need to find something comparable to Keep. I use Keep for a lot of random notes and ideas, and so far nothing I’ve found comes close (Nextcloud Notes included).

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      All phone cameras suck without heavy postprocessing. Pixel binning and the tiny sensors with fixed aperture means unless you have a good software processing the picture is gonna be bad. They use composite capture which constructs the final picture out of many pictures taken almost simultaneously with different sensitivities. Unless the camera software is tailor made for the hardware, it will look awful. It’s also why different phones with the exact same camera hardware take radically different pictures.

    • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I use a few of the google apps via the sandbox google-play services on GrapheneOS and it works fine (Maps, Android-Auto, Camera, Playstore).